Before the publication of Indecent Exposure last month, David
McClintick's investigative work had become a chic bicoastal accessory.
Movers, shakers and pretenders read pirated copies, chuckling over
David Begelman's embezzlement of $84,000 from Columbia Pictures in
1977, which precipitated one of the most acrimonious power struggles in
film history.

More accurate than elegant, McClintick's tinsel raker has attracted the
general public as well as the corporate elite and has climbed onto the
bestseller lists. Surprisingly, it does not peer in Bel Air bedrooms.
Instead,...